The Abolitionists

What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

• A compromise that declared slaves count as three-fifths of a person for state population

• A decision to limit slave trade to three-fifths of the states

• A tax imposed on slave owners for each slave they owned

• A law that freed three-fifths of the slaves

What did the American Colonization Society focus on?

• Abolishing slavery immediately in the United States

• Creating new slave laws in the southern states

• Gradually resettling freed slaves back to Africa

• Educating slaves in the United States

Who was William Lloyd Garrison?

• A leader of the American Colonization Society

• A slave owner who freed his slaves

• The founder of the most popular anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator

• A former president who proposed an amendment to abolish slavery

What was the main goal of the Grimke sisters?

• To move to Liberia and help freed slaves

• To become leaders in the women's suffrage movement

• To speak out against slavery and write a book on its cruelties

• To establish the American Colonization Society

What did the Fugitive Slave Act require?

• That slave owners provide education to their slaves

• That slaves could not be pursued in free states

• That all citizens help catch and return runaway slaves

• That slaves were freed after working for ten years

Who was Frederick Douglass?

• A Supreme Court justice who ruled on the Amistad case

• A president who tried to pass an amendment to abolish slavery

• A former slave who became a prominent abolitionist speaker and writer

• The inventor of the cotton gin

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A movement to build railroads without the use of slave labor

• A series of tunnels built by slaves to escape plantations

• A secret network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom

• A real railroad used to transport goods between the North and South

Who was Harriet Tubman?

• An escaped slave who led others to freedom via the Underground Railroad

• The founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society

• An author who wrote about the cruelties of slavery

• A wealthy slave owner who freed her slaves

What impact did the cotton gin have on slavery?

• It was invented by a slave to ease the workload

• It led to a cotton boom and increased dependence on slave labor

• It made cotton production less profitable

• It reduced the need for slave labor

What was the outcome of the United States v. the Amistad Africans case?

• The slaves were returned to their owners

• The slaves were freed and returned to Africa

• The slaves were sent to Liberia by the American Colonization Society

• The slaves were granted land in the United States